Factual Questions:
1) Where does Renfeild go when he escapes in chapter 9?
2) Who donates their blood for Lucy when she is dying?
3) How does Lucy's physical appearance and behaviors change right before her death?
Evaluative Questions:
1) Dracula commits murders for his own benefits and greed. In your opinion, do you think his acts of killing people can be reasonable?
2) Van Helsing tells Dr.Sward to keep everything a secret to Lucy. Why do you think Van Helsing is trying to keep everything secrets to Lucy?
3) How can you relate Dracula’s commitments to the Victorian Justice?
4) In these chapters, we can see that Lucy is a typical Victorian woman. How can you see that?
Theme:
Science vs Supernatural powers.
In the book Dracula, the main character, Dracula, has supernatural powers, which is unbreakable with science. Lucy gets bitten by Dracula, which makes her to lose her blood all the time. Many doctors had came in and tried to donate some blood and do a blood transfusion to Lucy. Lucy seemed to look better the next day; however, she became pale and sick after a few hours. The doctors tried to do it over again, but the results were same, which was Lucy becoming sick again. Therefore, the doctors tried to do something new, which was to put Garlic Flowers around Lucy’s neck. However her mother opens the window because it smelled too bad, which made Lucy sick again. This shows how in the book Dracula, supernatural powers are much more stronger than the science. Science cannot defeat the Dracula’s supernatural power, and at the end Lucy ends up dying.
Critical Passage:
“‘ A brave man’s blood is the best on this earth when a woman is in trouble’” (Stoker 136)
This quote is when Van Helsing is talking to Morris and telling him to donate his blood. I think this quote is a significant passage in chapters 9 to 12 because, men’s donation of blood to Lucy plays a big role in these chapters. Chapters 9 to 12 are all about Lucy’s sickness and people curing her by donating blood for blood transfusion. When Van Helsing said this quote, it is significant how the blood that men donated are going to be significant for Lucy. In my opinion, I think that men’s blood will play a big role in the next chapters. I think Dracula bitting Lucy will relate to the donation of blood in next chapters.
Literary Device:
Simile
“I have an appetite like a cormorant, am full of life, and sleep well.” (Stoker 101)
This is a literary device because the author is comparing appetite to a cormorant by using “ like ”. An appetite is natrual desire to satisfy a bodily need while a cormorant is a long bird. This is related because cormorants are usually called appetites. This piece of literary device is significant because the author uses simile to describe and show how the characters are feeling.
Metaphor
“ I reached him just as the sun was going down, and from his window saw the red disk sink.” (Stoker 118)
This is a metaphor that describes the sun as a red disk. This is a way that Bram Stoker uses a lot, which is to describe a thing with a metaphor to show it more clearly and to make people imagine the scene.
1) Where does Renfeild go when he escapes in chapter 9?
2) Who donates their blood for Lucy when she is dying?
3) How does Lucy's physical appearance and behaviors change right before her death?
Evaluative Questions:
1) Dracula commits murders for his own benefits and greed. In your opinion, do you think his acts of killing people can be reasonable?
2) Van Helsing tells Dr.Sward to keep everything a secret to Lucy. Why do you think Van Helsing is trying to keep everything secrets to Lucy?
3) How can you relate Dracula’s commitments to the Victorian Justice?
4) In these chapters, we can see that Lucy is a typical Victorian woman. How can you see that?
Theme:
Science vs Supernatural powers.
In the book Dracula, the main character, Dracula, has supernatural powers, which is unbreakable with science. Lucy gets bitten by Dracula, which makes her to lose her blood all the time. Many doctors had came in and tried to donate some blood and do a blood transfusion to Lucy. Lucy seemed to look better the next day; however, she became pale and sick after a few hours. The doctors tried to do it over again, but the results were same, which was Lucy becoming sick again. Therefore, the doctors tried to do something new, which was to put Garlic Flowers around Lucy’s neck. However her mother opens the window because it smelled too bad, which made Lucy sick again. This shows how in the book Dracula, supernatural powers are much more stronger than the science. Science cannot defeat the Dracula’s supernatural power, and at the end Lucy ends up dying.
Critical Passage:
“‘ A brave man’s blood is the best on this earth when a woman is in trouble’” (Stoker 136)
This quote is when Van Helsing is talking to Morris and telling him to donate his blood. I think this quote is a significant passage in chapters 9 to 12 because, men’s donation of blood to Lucy plays a big role in these chapters. Chapters 9 to 12 are all about Lucy’s sickness and people curing her by donating blood for blood transfusion. When Van Helsing said this quote, it is significant how the blood that men donated are going to be significant for Lucy. In my opinion, I think that men’s blood will play a big role in the next chapters. I think Dracula bitting Lucy will relate to the donation of blood in next chapters.
Literary Device:
Simile
“I have an appetite like a cormorant, am full of life, and sleep well.” (Stoker 101)
This is a literary device because the author is comparing appetite to a cormorant by using “ like ”. An appetite is natrual desire to satisfy a bodily need while a cormorant is a long bird. This is related because cormorants are usually called appetites. This piece of literary device is significant because the author uses simile to describe and show how the characters are feeling.
Metaphor
“ I reached him just as the sun was going down, and from his window saw the red disk sink.” (Stoker 118)
This is a metaphor that describes the sun as a red disk. This is a way that Bram Stoker uses a lot, which is to describe a thing with a metaphor to show it more clearly and to make people imagine the scene.